Lawsuits

The agreement includes roughly $300 million in restitution, and a $100 million civil money penalty that will be one of the largest in New Jersey's history if it receives court approval.

Bank of America is facing off in court with the bond insurer Ambac Financial Group in a $2.7 billion case that's one of its last legal hangovers from the subprime crisis.

Equifax, the second-biggest global credit bureau, was hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit after a report that it provided inaccurate credit scores on millions of U.S. consumers looking for loans.

Discrimination claims and data breaches are just some of the issues the industry has faced this year.

The court found the sale of a property held by a limited liability company violated bankruptcy-related restrictions because a resident with a Chapter 7 petition was involved.

The misdemeanor plea deals for three co-defendants do not add to troubles for an upstate New York developer facing federal felony charges in what once was called a "wide-ranging mortgage fraud scheme."

Wells Fargo won an early round in a lawsuit accusing the bank of running a predatory mortgage lending scheme in the Atlanta area before the 2008 financial crisis and continuing to discriminate against minorities for more than a decade afterward.

The New Jersey-specific case could be a sign of how the combined effect of federal debt-collection rules and state regulations may further complicate a compliance-sensitive environment for the industry.

The U.S. Treasury Department defeated a blue-state challenge to a rule that exempts buyers of high-interest loans from state interest rate caps.

The ruling overturns a summary judgment in a class action lawsuit filed by refinance customers between 2004 and 2009 in West Virginia over alleged inflated property values.